My aunt works at a fish factory in Nova Scotia. As she stands there, cleaning fish, she listens to a books-on-tapes version of Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov.
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My aunt works at a fish factory in Nova Scotia. As she stands there, cleaning fish, she listens to a books-on-tapes version of Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov.
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When I was a data entry clerk at a bank for three years, I listened to hundreds of books on tape — including James Joyce’s Ulysses. (It was the only way I understood that book, actually.)
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That story seems a little fishy. 😉
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Not killing two birds with one stone, but perhaps cathcing two fish with one hook?
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Does she listen in Russian or in English?
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In Russian. Dostoyevsky doesn’t translate very well. He invented a language very much his own, and that flavor can only be felt in the original. Beautiful, beautiful language.
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I think she has the right idea, keeping her brain engaged while doing repetitive physical labor. I find that when I keep my hands busy doing something simple and repetitive, I listen and retain information better.
When I had a three-hour-per-day commute, I listened via CD to a book for which I had to write a report in 8th grade. Wrote the report and got the grade by skimming, not reading, the book. Mistake! I really enjoyed “Treasure Island” on CD. And, I finished in time for National Talk Like A Pirate Day!
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